[UCLA-LUG] How install win9x on /dev/hda2 or 3 and still have it bootable

[Justin Boseant]

> I have a problem with my windows98 partition (hda1). Is there a way to move
> this partition (copy it) to partition  hda2 and still have it bootable?

Win9x requires that the c:\  exists on the 1st partition of the 1st disk
(booting disk).  But if you don't really care about the data you could
always use partition magic to move around the partitions.  I don't have
any/much experience with fdisk on a running system ( once I changed an
unmounted partition to FAT16 ).  

As far as copying, you can use dd if you have the disk space around...USE
WITH MUCH CAUTION.  dd is the easiest way to nuke any partion you like so
be very careful & reread the command about 3 times.  

so if you wanted to copy the filesystem to /home/me/filesystem.fs you
would do:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/home/me/filesystem.fs

if you wanted to copy it to your 2nd partition you could do:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda2

not sure if you'd want to use a blocksize option on this though (anyone?)


PLEASE, for the sake of your computer read through the dd man page before
doing anything.  Another thought might be that your Win9x install has a
couple problems.  Can you mount it and backup necessary files before
proceding?

-justin